The 2024 stock market year is heading slowly but surely into the finishing straight. There are just five more full weeks of trading left before many investors are likely to leave for their Christmas holidays. It is little wonder, then, that the words \u201cend-of-year rally\u201d can be heard around the stock market. November got off to a positive start, with share prices rising in many places following Donald Trump\u2019s surprisingly clear win in the US presidential election. Nevertheless, the change of government in Washington also comes with many imponderables. In particular, the protectionist trade policy that Trump announced in his election campaign could put the brakes on Europe in the new year. That makes it all the more important for investors not to put all their eggs in one basket, but instead to spread their money around. One of the ways of covering as broad a spectrum of Swiss listed companies as possible is offered by the FuW Swiss 50 Index.<\/p>\n\n
The \u201cFinanz und Wirtschaft\u201d editorial team launched this barometer a good two years ago as a deliberate counterpoint to the SMI. Not only does the FuW Swiss 50 Index contain 30 more shares than the well-known national benchmark, but the weighting of individual companies is also much more tightly controlled. The 25 largest stocks as measured by their free-float market capitalisation each make up 2.7% of the index, while the proportion per share in the bottom half is 1.3.%. The FuW Swiss 50 Index is reset to this allocation twice a year, thereby strangling any clustering risk almost at birth. On the subject of risk, it is possible to invest in the FuW Swiss 50 Index through an ETP+. For this investment vehicle FuW draws on the expertise of Leonteq. The issuer is responsible both for the technical realisation of the financial product and for its trading. To do so, the Zurich specialist uses a particularly robust structure, the ETP+.<\/p>\n\n